Women and Technology: A Case Study of the Telephone in Australia

Bell Diane . Generations: Grandmothers. Mothers and Daughters (with photographs by Hawkes Ponche ), McPhee Gribble/Penguin, 1988.

Keller Suzanne . ‘The Telephone in New Communities and Old’, in The Social Impact of the Telephone, ed de Sola Pool I. , MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1977, Keller was early to draw the distinction between ‘instrumental’ and ‘intrinsic’ calling.

Kramerae Cheris , ed. Technology and Women's Voices, Routledge & Kegan Paul, New York & London 1988.

Ministerial Statement, Australian Telecommunications Services: A Framework. Statement by the Minister for Communications, 25 May 1988, Canberra, AGPS, 1988.

Moyal Ano , Clear Across Australia: A History of Telecommunications, Melbourne, Thomas Nelson, 1984.

Moyal Ann , ‘Women and the Telephone in Australia: A Report to Telecom’, Melbourne, Telecom Australia, April 1988, The Report contains the voices of women across the sample. [Copies of the Report can be obtained from Cox W.F. , Social Research Unit, Telecom Australia, 27/570 Bourke Street, Melbourne 3000.]

Moyal Ann , ‘The Feminine Culture of the Telephone: People, Patterns and Policy’, Prometheus 7, 1 (June 1989), 5–31. The paper presents an overview of the findings of the Report to Telecom.

Rakow Lana F. , ‘Gender, Communication and Technology: A Case Study of Women and the Telephone’, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, PhD thesis, 1987, A microfiche copy of the dissertation is held in Macquarie University Library. And see Rakow Lana F. , ‘Women and the Telephone: The Gendering of a Communications Technology’, in Kramerae , op cit, 207–28.

Rowlings Bill , ‘Time Out: Clocking the Media on Timed Local Telephone Calls’, MIA 49 (August 1988), 7–12.

Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, Second (29–30 August 1989), Monash Information and Communication Technology Centre (MONICT).

While Peter B. , ‘Immigrants and the Telephone in Australia’, MIA 54 (1989; this issue).